The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-07-23
TALKS OF OLD TINES.
President Cleyeland's Address at the
Clinton Centennial-Grover's Early
Days at College.

IALhc Uf ULD IlMES.
President CIeyeland's Address at the
Clinton Centennial-Grover's Early
Days at College.
UTICA, n. Y, July 13.-President
Cleveland, with his wife, sister, and Miss
Hastings, his niece; Col. Lamont aud f.
Prendss Baily, of Utica. came down
from Holland Patent on the special
coach COrOnet, at O'Clock this morning
They were met by Prof Hovt and
number of ladies and gentlemen Of the
Centennial Committee from Clinton
Prof. HOyt made a brief address of vel
come, TO which the president responded
IN a few words. The Utica
JacksOnians, 100 strong, with
the Twelfth United States Infantry
Band, saluted the President and his
wife as they stood upon the platform
Of the coach. Crowded trains have been
running TO Clinton all the morning. The
Presidents special train started
at 9:l5 A. NJ. An immense
crowd was at the Ontario
& Western Railroad station as the train
pulled out. They cheered the Presi-
dent and waved their hats as he stood
uncovered and bowed his acknowledge
ments.
President Cleveland and party reach
ed Clinton about 10 o'clock. An inn
mense crowd was at the station TO
greet them. They We're escorted bv
the JacksonIans to Mrs. O. :. Wi Iianl-'
residence. After the parade the Pre-
dent spent an hour in receiving calls at
Mrs. Williams home, and over 5000
people were presented.
The exercises IN the park did not
commence until nearly , O'Clock. Rev.
Henry Darling, president of Hamilton
College. offered the opening prayer
The Rev. L. 2. Powell then made an
address Of welcome to which the presi-
dent responded as follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: II am bv no
means certain of my standing here
among those who celebrate the centen-
nal of ChntOn's exI stence as a village.
Nv recOIect0us of the place reach
backward but about thirty-six wears and
my residence here covered very brief
period. But these recOlectiOns
are fresh and distinct TO-DAY, and pleas
ant, too, though not entirely free from
sOmber C0lOrIng 1t was here in the
school at the foot of College Hill that |
began my preparation for college
life, and enjoyed the anticipation
OF a collegiate education. We had two
teachers in our school One became af-
terwards a Judge in Chicago and the
other passed through the legal profession
to the ministry, and within the last two
years was living further west. l read
little Latin with the other bows in the
class. I think I tlOuudered through four
books Of the Eneid. The other bows
had nice large modern editions of Eir-
gil. with big print and plenty OF notes to
heIp one over hard places. Mine was
"A mi 4 &c FH
father used before me, with no notes,
and which was only translated by hard
knocks. l believe | have forgiven these
other bows for their persistent refusal
To allow me the use OftheIr notes III their
books. At any rate, they do not seem to
have been Overtaken by anv dire retri-
button, as one Of them Is now a rich and
prosperous LAWYER in Buffalo, and the
other is Il professor in your college, and
orator of tO-day's celebration.
Struggles with ten lines of Virgil,
which at first made mp my daily task,
are amusing as remembered now; but
with them | am also forced to
remember that instead of being
ton for which I honestly I0nged
they occurred near the end Of my school
advantages. This suggests disappOiur-
meGt which no lapse Of time can alleviate
and q deprivation | have sadly felt with
every passing year. I Iremember BeuCai
Butler and his store. I don't know
whether he was an habirual poet or not,
but hear him reCite one poem Of his
own manufacture, which embodied an
account Of travel TO or from Clinton in
the early days. I can recall but two
lines OF the poem, as follows.
Paris hill next came In sight,
And there we Jarried over night.
remember the next door naighbors.
Drs Bissell and ScOlIard-ard good
kind ueIghbOrs they were. too-not your
cross, Grabbed kind, who could not bear
to see a boy about. ItaIWavs seemed to
me that they drove very fine horses. and
for that reason | thought they must be
extremely rich. l don't know that I
Cl0uld indulge in further recolIecti0Hs
that must seem very little like a centen-
NAL history, but | want to es-
tdbish az well as can nv
right TO be here. I might have
spoken of the college faculty, who cast
sucha pleasing though sober shade of
dignity over the place, and who, with
other educated and substantial Citi-
Zens, made up the best Of
social life. I was a boy then. but, not
wlthstauding, I believe / absorbed
Of the ehnement-whIch made this q
delightful home
I know that you vii. bear with ME, my
friends, if I WELD TO the impulse which
the mention of home creates and speak
Of my own home here, and how through
the memories which cluster about it
I may claim tender relationship to your
village. Here it was that our family cir
Gle eutire-parents and children-lived
day after day in loving and atfectionate
converse. and here, for the last time, we
met around the family altar and thanked
God that our household was
unbrOken by death or separation
We never met together in any other
home after leaving this and death fol-
lowing closely our departure. And thus
it is that with advancing wears I
survey the havoc death has made
and the thoughts Ot my ear
" home become more and more
sacred, the remembrance Of this pleas
ant spot SO related Is revived and chast-
ened. [ can only add my thanks for the
privilege Of being with vOu to-day and
wish for the village Of Clinton in the fIt-
ure q continuation and increase Of the
blessings Of the past.
MEDAL FORA COLORED HE 10.